Jew Hunting Season

Duma. Once upon a time, my only association with this unusual word was from a work of horror fiction from American novelist, Stephen King, "Duma Key." That association is gone forever. Non-fiction replaces fiction. Other horrors, true nightmares in every sense of the word, now come to mind. The Arab town of Duma. Some words transcend a specific time, place, or geological location. Deir Yassin was one such place. Duma will become another. It will conjure up a terrible period in Jewish history. (Bear with me, sane reader. I have not lost my mind.)

Duma was a tragedy, but not for the reasons the Jewish liberal press would have you believe. There was no crime against Arabs, neither arson nor murder. The tragedy of Duma was in the form of a blood libel against Jews, in the same manner that leftists perpetuated the Arab myth of Jewish savagery in the murderous Arab town of Deir Yassin.

Duma will conjure the worst examples of Jews committing grave injustices against other Jews. It will come to symbolize the true face of Jewish extremism. A face comprised of weak, evil, incompetent politicians who readily set their faceless, nameless, Shabbak thugs (who waste energy and resources that can be used to crush Arab terror!) to beat innocent Jewish children in dark rooms where only the walls hear the screams of forced confessions. Long ago, the clever Arabs discovered that leftist Jews would blame Jews when Arabs kill each other. Israel's consistent knee-jerk reaction to such incidents have scandalized Israel's leadership since the state's inception.

The second part of this terrible story involves the inevitable barbarism, which follows these blood libels. Some incidents in our modern history personify the willingness of Israeli leftists to brutalize other Jews. The Altalena was the deliberate slaughter of innocent Jewish warriors, orchestrated by Ben Gurion, and carried out in large measure by Rabin. In recent years, Yassamnikim thugs perpetrated a pogrom against helpless, defenseless Jews in Amona. Duma is the latest chapter. The common denominator is that the government always gets away with it.

Once again, the left took the lies of the Arab narrative of Duma (much like Deir Yassin long ago), and perpetrated a blood libel. In bold-faced type, they wrote the story: "Extremist Jews" set fire and murder Arabs in the Arab village of Duma. No evidence? The Shabak does not care.

The true synopsis of Duma: Arabs murder other Arabs during an ongoing war between rival families, and blame it on Jewish "settlers." A weak criminal government uses the incident to perpetuate the story of Jewish extremism, to harass those deemed "Jewish extremists." They utilize the brutal administrative detention to imprison and torture their targets. No one hears from them for weeks and months. They endure unimaginable horror and are made to confess.

Administrative detention: a euphemism for the abuse of Jews by Israel's leaders where they detain Jews without cause for indefinite periods. The British once used this barbaric measure to punish Jewish heroes. Years ago, Israel's leaders used it to incarcerate the gibor of our age, Rabbi Meir Kahane (may G-d avenge his blood.)Today, the Likud sinks even lower in their own filth by abusing this primitive, goyish, immoral act to target their Jewish detractors. It is the perfect vehicle for abuse, and contrary to the most rudimentary aspects of halachic justice. They do not require evidence of a crime. They merely have to crush your bones until you confess to one.

Several months ago, I wrote an article in The Jewish Press about this insidious crime (Return of the Hunt). More than four months have passed and the abomination continues. Thanks to the efforts of people like Attorney Itamar Ben Gvir who represents several of the incarcerated Duma "suspects," we are now privy to details of horrific Shabak tortures against Jews ranging from physical beatings on vulnerable, sensitive spots on the body, sensory and sleep deprivation, and even sexual assault, possibly including sodomy. (ISA 'sexually harassed' Duma suspect.) If this doesn't make you want to storm the barricades, nothing will.

(I would be remiss if I failed to mention the legal group HONENU who defend Jewish heroes from Israel's repressive judicial process. They are also involved in this case, advocating for immediate justice.)

Several days ago, I expressed my concern and certainty that the Shabak was sexually assaulting these young men, since the Shabak needed to do something so terrible to them that would make them reticent to speak about it. Ben Gvir's statements confirmed what I suspected to be true. I fear that we may never know the full extent of such actions.

Many leftists celebrate the imprisonment of kipah wearing, unruly "hilltop youth" with peyot. Yet the most abominable silence comes from Likudniks who will defend Bibi to their grave. Then we have the quislings of the respectable Habayit Hayehudi. Several months back, Habayit's Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked jumped onto the bandwagon with their own perspective, which displayed that the loyalist "religious parties" take a back seat to no one when it comes to repugnant positions. The words "capital punishment" were thrown about. For those who hoped that he might have done teshuva, Bennett recently came out with a statement in support of the Shabak's monstrous acts. It shows him to be a cruel and foolish man, more interested in Arab rights than Jewish lives. Those who worship these leaders should understand that Mapai once used these same KGB tactics against Bibi's supposed ideological forebears.

A man cannot incriminate himself: a basic halachic concept. The Torah understood the dangers of forced confessions. Most liberal Jews misunderstand the Torah's strict criteria for Halachic guilt. They view it through the distortion of an intellectual cataract, which they see as being the Torah's reticence to administer harsh punishments for real crimes. How mistaken they are. The Torah intended to prevent a travesty to the Torah's ideal of justice. To kill an innocent man is as obscene as the notion of a guilty man going free. It matters little even with the strict judicial criteria for say capital punishment, Jewish society had other measures to ensure that probable offenders were punished adequately while still retaining the halachic criteria.

The Torah standards follow the reality of human nature and psychology. There is a breaking point for everyone, including the strongest of men. Evil men have always used strong-arm tactics to break people. The Shabak will do anything to a kipah wearing, peyot swinging "hilltop youth" to pin a crime on them. They will ignore Arab incitement and actual violence, but wage warfare to uncover the origins of supposed "price tag" attacks. Democracy for Arabs. Gestapo tactics for obstinate idealistic Jews. If anyone of these detainees "confessed", it is because the Shabak broke their spirits, not to mention their bodies.

One of the main impediments to exposing and eradicating the abuses of Israeli government towards other Jews is the modern day notion of public relations for Israel. Some advocates for Israel are terrified of highlighting examples of rampant institutional corruption in Israel, which harms the public in all spheres of life from economics to security. Others support such brutal measures either out of a sense of ideological commitment to their leaders and parties, or by actual approval of such measures against Jews.

Contemporary hasbara (PR) efforts are pandering, patronizing, and self-aggrandizing. They are often untrue or exaggerated. Frequently they celebrate things Torah observant Jews should not celebrate. There is a place for a proper, respectable form of hasbara. Current expressions do not meet the criteria for dignified hasbara.

One of the more popular ones is the oft mentioned, "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East . . ." Surely the most popular hasbara slogan among liberal Jews. From a Torah perspective, western democracy cannot be celebrated since all systems of government, including the best of them, cannot reach the theoretical perfection that only a truly Torah oriented society can provide. Yet in the absence of such a system, a flawed democracy is preferable to a government based upon the principles of Sodom. If it were so, such egregious abuses of personal liberty would never occur.

The fact that Tel Aviv is a gay mecca in the Middle East does not mean Israel is democratic. It means that Tel Aviv is a gay mecca. It means that while Sodom is gone, the legacy of Sodom and Gomorrah permeates the country. Neither high tech technology, nor Tel Aviv's reputation for being a gay Middle Eastern mecca is our reason for being. The latter is a reason for not being. Israel's democracy is a veneer. A tyranny with voting booths remains a haven of corruption. Even in the worst societies, there were often veneers of equality. Yet no one likes to vote at the other end of a shotgun.

Do you live in a democracy? If the answer to even one question is yes, then you do not live in a democracy.

* Does your government ban a popular Jewish party because they speak truths relating to the Arabs of Israel?

* Do the leaders of your country detain Jews for months without any charges and denying them legal representation?

* Does the judicial arm of said country approve of and permit such abusive tactics while the same country demands that her doctors heal and feed Arab murderers?

* Has your country recently eliminated an Arab who brutally murdered Jews in his youth, was captured by Israel and then released him to kill again? If the answer is YES, then you live in an asylum.

* Do the military police beat and bludgeon Jews but skirt any legal consequences?

As I have noted before, if the Shabak had any evidence against any of the detainees they would have charged them long ago. There is no way on earth that a group of young untrained men could fool Israel's world-class forensics. They would need the equivalent knowledge of the experts to fool them. The idea is absurd. You can be certain that Israel used every modern tool to uncover evidence of wrongdoing. The only logical explanation is that they are trying to pin a crime on innocent Jews. Netanyahu has the nerve to speak of Jewish extremism. He is the very model of a Jewish extremist, a man who believes himself King, and has no cognizance of a Creator. If he did, he could never permit such abuses against other Jews.

One day, good men will recount the true story of our internal Jewish enemies. The tale of perfidy will make Ben Hecht's famous entry, a mere chapter in a larger encyclopedia of injustice. The Likud will sit alongside Labor in the annals of Jewish criminality. In addition to the sin of spilled Jewish blood, the Likud will have to answer for the brutal terrorizing of Jews, which we now know included sexual assault. Fellow Jews, speak loudly and fearlessly on behalf of our modern day Maccabees. Our battered brothers cannot scream out for themselves.

A final message to our leaders who are responsible for detaining and abusing our heroic Jewish brothers. And it starts with Netanyahu at the top: Release these heroic prisoners of Zion immediately. G-d will not forgive this enduring crime against the Jewish people. There will be justice.

Hmm. As a religious Jew and a Zionist I disagree with you. Israel is a nation. All law is founded upon Torah but Torah is not “government,” and though you could call the Essenes or the Lubavitchers a “nation” Torah is not and never was a “nation.” You belittle Torah to call it this, and I believe you belittle the Lord’s diverse nation of architect-children.

Hmm. As a religious Jew and a Zionist I disagree with you. Israel is a nation. All law is founded upon Torah but Torah is not "government," and though you could call the Essenes or the Lubavitchers a "nation" Torah is not and never was a "nation." You belittle Torah to call it this, and I believe you belittle the Lord's diverse nation of architect-children.

Israel is a nation. Torah is its G-d-given government.

Keep that up and you might find yourself ruled over by a vegan Orthodox Feminist after the Satmar and Belz duke it out. :P

Torah is filled with instructions on how we hold up our end of the agreement with Him, and it’s the only authority for that. No man can come between.

Isaiah 55:8-9New International Version (NIV)

8 â€œFor my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,â€
declares the Lord.

9 â€œAs the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.

how can this be if a Nation Is God?

"though you could call the Essenes or the Lubavitchers a 'nation'"

Ouch. Surely, you're not equating the Lubavitchers with pre-Ancient Essenes. Lubavitchers are protecting written Torah and teaching aliens sincerely seeking knowledge as commanded. J*sus was the Essenes' figurative allegory man-deity (Dead Sea Scrolls, Catholic Advent). Today's Lubavitchers and the bygone Essenes are absolutely opposed and different from each other.

G-d is the King of Kings over the nation of Israel and all of the nations. Torah is the Law of the nation of Israel and will be the Law of all of the nations. The nation of Israel is still much dispersed, but it is forming, both physically in Israel and divinely around the planet. Gathering: physically to Israel and the learning that is happening in some people in all of the nations. Both those in Israel and others in the nations will have their purposes at certain times.

This, from an isolated alien, by the way. I'm not a Lubavitcher, but I do respect them very much as loyal lights to the world and keepers of Torah.

No one can stop what is to come. It will hasten, as some do what is newly discovered and right, and others do more of what is wrong (e.g., trying to slow the process).

"Keep that up and you might find yourself ruled over by a vegan Orthodox Feminist after the Satmar and Belz duke it out. :P

Torah is filled with instructions on how we hold up our end of the agreement with Him, and itâ€™s the only authority for that. No man can come between."

Those are good points. Rough times, but there are a particularly authorized people to learn from and follow (Judah, Prophets). Orthodox Jewish people prepare Israel. The rest of us learn respectfully and prepare the other nations.

"how can this be if a Nation Is God?"

Deep stuff, Mikey. The nation is not G-d in the way that you're asking about. We don't worship any nation. That would be wrong. G-d is the nation (and much more) in a higher sense, when the nation of Israel does as G-d commands. In a big way, everyone and everything is already doing as G-d knew all along.

G-d owns physical Israel and has decided what will be done with it, while many who are distanced try to ridiculously propagandize and fight over Israel against his plan. When G-d arrives physically (Ezekiel saw, Elijah knew), the Torah and remainder of the plan shown in The Prophets will simply happen in Israel and worldwide. We won't have to study so much. All will be apparent to everyone remaining in the world.

Though one nation has authority to teach respectful students (and see Prophets), every nation (no exclusions, Prophets) will rebel in some ways or others between now and then, ZC. Many simply aren't going to make it past the physical arrival of G-d in Jerusalem. More clearly, many will pass away. It's in the plans (Prophets). It's all for the best for a wonderful world to come.

Israel will become a master over other nations in a worldly sense, and other people of Israel will change the nations spiritually (so to speak) then physically (after Moschiach and a time of peace, that's the order in the Prophets).

So, MeshugeMikey, it will be G-d, Israel, Torah and the world as G-d planned.

MeshugeMikey, on what jjotto was telling you, there are no types or shadows. It is what it is--no more, no less. Focus. Don't get upset. Don't hurry. Don't be distracted by metaphors.

Isaiah 43:11

Zechariah 14:9

Malachi 3:6

All the best,

familyop

PS, MeshugeMikey, PM coming your way.

"The Torah and the Land and People of Israel are also not amenable to â€˜your thoughtsâ€™ and â€˜your waysâ€™."

That's very true, although most people don't understand what it means. And to those who don't understand, it would convey a message that tells them to stay out and go away, even if they're sincerely asking.

On the other hand, if someone from the outside is trying to argue instead of sincerely asking, it would seem to be a good reply. Maybe we'll find out which approach was happening, eh?

Thanks, familyop. No, I was not equating Lubavitchers and Essenes.

I don’t understand quite what you mean about “J*sus” but... Unless you correct me I will surmise that you are a Christian that has adopted some of the customs and beliefs of Judaism and incorporated them into your worship of the “man-deity.”

Trying reading these two verses without Christian baggage:

Deut 32:9
For the LORD’S portion (chelek HaShem) is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Exodus 4:22
Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.

â€œGod, Israel and the Torah are One.â€
- Rabbi Chaim Volozhiner

Here “Israel” refers to the People of Israel, not the nation-state that started up in 1948.

Only in Messianic times will the Torah again be the law of the (political) nation of Israel.

Only in Messianic times will the Torah again be the law of the (political) nation of Israel.

And by definition, whenever Israel adopts the Torah form of governance and bases all its laws on Halakhah, Mashiach will have come.

May this happen immediately!!!

"Trying reading these two verses without Christian baggage:"

I've read those two verses and have not had any problem with them.

The English translations are different in the Stone Edition and Judaica Press from what you wrote, but I catch your drift. I must include a mention of verse 12 in the 32nd Chapter of Deuteronomy because of its significance in my belief.

Would you please show the "baggage" in my words for more understanding? I'm isolated and by myself with no religious and societal community support, so I'm not as proud as most.

Thanks for the post, ZC. And yes, Torah is the perfect kind of government (in the sense of instructions, framework, law...). HaShem is The King.

As for other discussion of nation (people under government),...

HaShem

gave the light of Torah

to Israel,

which nation is a light

to the nations.

It’s not hard at all to understand, if we give up and avoid the erroneous, abstract, unreal, idolatrous Egypto-Greco-Roman concept of perfection. There’s no such kind of perfect. Then study with un-distracted focus and analysis.

It is what it is—all of it.

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